The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12
A STORY OF THE CRIME.
Sketches of the Men who Played the
Leading Roles.

bSdSllS 1NOACS'
CHICAGO, Nov. IA more striking pro-
cession of civic events may never again be
witnessed than the one having its latest out
come to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical demon
strations with red banners and black that
took place in the streets of Chicago not two
winters ago, followed soon afterward by the
picturesque, vet ominous, Sunday gather
erings of tatterdemalions, foreigners and
demagogues on the broad common at the
lake front, are now recalled as the quick
forerunners of secret cellar-drillings by
hundreds of ignorant, fanatical rifemen i'll
tue purlieus throughout the city. Then
came the cool, deliberate dynamite exper-
iinents by carefully-selected masked rep
resentstives in the woods skirting the
suburbs. Later on secluded in the quiet of
downtown back rooms,
DARK CoNCLAVES
of wild-ideaed but brainy, INSCRIPTIONS
leaders, eagerly discussed as their long
coveted opportunity the just-beginning de
velopment of the workingman's concerted
movement for a uniform eight-hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes were
turned into riots, how the entire world was
startled by the blood-chilling bomb massa-
ere in the Haymarket; then the majestic
State trial, the amazing bravad0 Of the one
American defendant, the horribly grotesque
marriage of another one of the prisoners
every detail of these strange occurrences
and the extraordinary train succeeding,
now presents itself again as if the whole
had passed but yesterday.
The keynote of it all is found in the
platform OF
THE MYSTERIOUS I. A. A.
international Arbeicer (Workingmen's) AS
sociation-of which organization August
Spies and his seven co-defendants were
leading members and upholders. In the
international platform it is urged that 1.-THE
pres Nnt system under which property is
owned BY individuals should be destroyed,
and that all capital which has been pro-
duced by labor should be trans
formed into common property by
force" Eighty groups" of this dangerous
association existed in the United States,
chiefly at the great industrial centres, Chi
cago alone being the ill-sta1red poSsessor of
seven. Only portion of the members
were armed, yet the number of this class in
Chicago exceeded 3,OOO every man OF whom
attended regular military drill, had his own
rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
for the asking. The unarmed members of
the groups were constantly in contact with
their armed brethren and in hearty sym
pathy with their purposes and their princi-
pies. 1t was this compact well-disciplined
l. \. A. That had for it organs three now
noted newspapers-the Arbeiter Zeituag,
the Alarm and the Anarchist. Excepting
handsome, youthful Louis Lingg, who,
though taking a conspicuous part, was
mere acting agent, each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one of these
papers.
August Spies, q keen, cynical Hessian,
with the subtle intellectual vigor of an Iago,
was editor-in-chief of the Arbeiter. The
jaunty, daredevil little Texan, Albert r.
Parsons brother of Confederate General.
presided over the Alarm. AT the head
of the Anarchist George Engel, another
Hessian, but of coarse, brutal type, out
HerOded the most blood-thlrsty utterances Of
his compeers, while sam Fielden the
Englishman, sullen looking, shaggy and
forDidding but as an agitator
simply volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the
polished, attractive German-American or
ganizer, were more especially concerned in
other than journalistic branches of the
propaganda, they were, nevertheless, among
tie directors respectively of the Alarm and
the Arbeiter Zettatlg. The gaunt Bavarian
Michael Schwab was Spies assistant editor,
and his fellowcountryIna Adolph Fischer,
he of the poisoned dagger, was the ArbeitcrS
head foreman.
might split hairs, could candidly deny that
ne was instrumental to a greater or less
degree in helping on the catastrophe at the
Haymarket. Of the legal guilt of each
nothing need be said further than its GER
tainty was put to tests seldom if ever par
alleled.
During the long months preceding tho
bomb-throwing the defendants one and all
were necessarily active in
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations" and experiments. -
Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with impassioned appeals for the laboring
people TO provide themselves with firearms
and dynamite. Specific instructions were
given how TO handle and use the explosive,
and how to make bombs and how to procure
weapons. All this was stated by the
conspirators to be making ready for
the coming social revolution" What
was meant by ''social revolution" was not
left TO be vaguely inferred, nor was the time
when it was TO be inaugurated dun uncer-
tainty of the future. The ''revolution' was
frequently defined i'll speech and writing
as a sudden, bloody, forcibe upheaval OF
the right Of private ownership Of property,